Originally Posted by knowuryder

There is proof of course that Jesus did exist, but his divinity is an entirely different matter.....so many fables come from something real and then get taller and taller over time and are edited by people with an agenda, as we know The Bible was.

Hmmmm, let' s see, how do we take the basic teachings of an enlightened fellow and use them to manipulate people? We first make him the son of a virgin, because if Mary got it from Joseph, she would be unclean because sex is bad. Then, we exaggerate a few things he did to make them look like miracles....and then we give him a god complex...and then we kill him to martyr him....and then we have witnesses say he resurrected and that he will be back so we better watch ourselves or else.....

It's fanciful, but transparent; and if he was the son of God and had all this information that he passed on to The Apostles to write gospels to teach us things, and we had Genesis to help us understand the origins of The Universe, why then many centuries later were holy men still punishing anyone who said the earth was round and not the center of The Universe?

God should know how The Universe is constructed, since he did it right?

The whole thing is so full of holes you could use it to strain pasta.